INTERPROVINCIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 32, 6 February 1880, Page 2

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[Press Association. J WELLINGTON RACES. • Wellington, Friday. Empire Plate: Harkaway 1, Sailor 2. Only two started. Won by a dozen lengths. Hurdle Handicap: Grey Momus, list, 1; Kangaroo, lOst, 2; Te Whetu, list 2lbs, 3. Six started. Club Handicap: Vampire 1, Hippo 2, Chancellor 3. Won by a head. Auckland, Tuesday. Mr Stewart, the District Engineer, has announced that he will to-morrow pay claims recovered by uempsey'a laborers. Several others obtained judgments to-day at the K.M. Court. Thomas Eitzgerald sued W. L. Rees for £75, money lent to pay election expenses in the City East contest, and interest. Judgment was given for £25 without interest. In the case of the Bowden Company v. M'lvor, a claim for £5, it was shdwn that defendant was owner of Grey Momus and three other race horses. ' Payment was ordered wiihin two months, or a term of imprisonment. A letter from the Secretary of the Sydney Exhibition says that the prize medals are being prepared in London, and the ;plate for the certificates by New York engravers. The prize list will shortly be published.

Friday. Another claimant has appeared to part of the Patetere block of 300,000 acres in which Mr Sheehan is endeavoring to induce Mr Boyce to forego the Hen in order to acqnire it for Messrs Whitaker, Jackson, Walker^ and others, who have formed a large speculative Company. Allen O'Neil advanced some years ago £750 to a native named Okiwi Ngatea on mortgage, and had a survey made and regularly attended and ■ registered the documents. The claim is for nearly £60,000. The speculators offer him half the sum he advanced. Dunedin, Friday. The Cromwell Company's crushing for the month yielded 338 ounces from 580 tons of stone. From Cromwell there come reports of races being robbed. One claim ho'der reports his loss at thirty ounces. By a fire, at Bannockburn, the South British loses £250. Gisborne, Friday. Milner, a tinsmith, dropped dead this morning in Gisborne opposite the itoyal Hotel. The deceased'was driving out in a huggy. Samuel Meson Wilson of the Argyle Hotel was acquitted of the charge of burning down his stables. ! Christchurch, Friday. It was rumored in town yesterday that an attempt had been made to poison Pastor Chiniquy. It seems that on Wednesday night a letter was received at the Oddfellows' Hall addressed to the Pastor, and when opened by his Secretary was found to emit a strong stench. He said that after handling it and putting his finger to his lips and nose an itching sensation followed, and afterwards his lips were swollen to a considerable size. There was also inside an envelope on which was written — " Remember you are to meet your God, prodigal child ! Come to me home, I am one who would give alms if you want them. Reflect on this ! Look at your black angels 1" The ! envelopes and enclosures were handed to the police, who submitted them to Professor Bickerton, and his report is as follows : — " I have examined the paper sent to Mr Cniniquy, and which I received from Detective Neil, and find it to contain nothing more than 'varnish and dead flies." : The Council of the Acclimatisation Society purpose putting some of the white fish" in several of the Canterbury lakes, in addition to Lake Coleridge. About thirty thousand have been hatched out so far. The Board of Education yesterday adopted the recommendation suggested by the Board of Health, namely, that all masters having on inquiry learnt that a pupil was suffering from infectious disease, should report the same to the local Board of Health, and require a medical certificate that the child, , when convalescent, could attend without danger to the other pupils, before heing readmitted. If the present weather continues another fortnight, the bulk of the wheat in the Southern districts will be harvested. It is j anticipated that fully 100,000 tons of grain will be shipped at Lyttelton during the season, as against 40,000 last year. Timartj, Friday. At an inquest on the fire by which several shops were recently destroyed at Waimate, the jury returned a verdict of arson against ! Robert Thompson, C. H. Clarke, Annie Clarke, and George Hayes. A rider was added to the effect that the jury strongly condemned the reckless and loose style of business of the Colonial Insurance Company in the matter of the insurance of Clarke's stock, as the evidence tended to show that it was insured for about sixty per cent over its real value.